[lbo-talk] Radar article on "Security" Profiteers

[Carrol Cox]

"3.3.3." wrote:
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of NY Media Snark anymore, or Radar actually, but why are
> they the only people doing really clear and easy to understand articles like
> this? They also did the Neocons-that-were-wrong-but-still-make-money
> -thing-earlier...

> Half of the "war-critical" people I know ( I wouldnt call them liberals)
> just know about Halliburton/KBR, and maybe recently Blackwater. Hell, I
> didnt even know about Paladin or ManTech before this.

So? Why do they need to know more? Why do they even need to know about
Halliburton?

But what do you mean by "war-critical people?" What we need in any case
is people committed to continuous building of and/or participation in a
militant mass movement against the war. That does not require any
particular knowledge even of Halliburton, much less any detailed
knowledge of all the malefactors involved.

The invasion of Iraq is a war crime. It would not be any less a war
crime if Halliburton were sacrificing profits rather than making profits
from it.

In the long run, and perhaps in the short run, it is a mistake for the
anti-war movement to focus so much either on Bush & Co. malfeasance _or_
on u.s. casualties (as in Support the Troops -- Bring them Home). There
will be more criminal wars after Iraq, as there have been many criminal
wars over the last 62 years, and the anti-war movement must build for
opposition to that Endless War, not merely opportunistically exploit
bush-league criminals like Halliburton or whoever else you are talking
about in this post.

Carrol